title: Image transmission using stable solitons of arbitrary shapes in photonic lattices.
abstract: We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that photonic lattices under self-defocusing nonlinearity support gap solitons in various shapes such as cross and H shapes. These solitons, with their intensity humps all in-phase, are stable against perturbations, thus they propagate robustly throughout the lattices. Based on this finding, we propose soliton-based text/image transmission through bulk photonic structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05401, USA. jyang@math.uvm.edu
authors.forename: Jianke
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Zhigang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen